BIBLE INSTIT UTE OF LOS ANGELES
Evangelistic Department
The Institute conducts aggressive evangelis ti c work, un der competent leadership, along the fo llowing lines: In the Oi l Fields; among the Mexicans; Shops and Fac tories; among the Seamen in Pacific Coast Harbors; House to House Vis itat ion and Bible Class Work by Bible Women; among the Jews; a Bible Institute in Hunan, China. The Work of t.1e Bible Women This work came into existence as the result of a deeply felt need to reach women in the home, and was organi zed by Mrs. Anna L. Horton in January, 1909. "Bible \i\Tomen" seemed to be the only appropriate name by which to designate those chosen and consecrated to the work of saving souls by leading them to Christ, reclaiming backsliders, meeting, warn ing and instructing those who have been mis led by fa lse re ligions, and establishing believers through the teaching of the \Vorel of Goel. The Bible Woman's work is found wherever the circum stances spell opportunity. Her working hours are any in the twenty-four when the Lord can use her for comforting, help ing, winning back, or saving her sisters. The maj or part of her work is house to house visitation in an assigned district, organizing and teaching Bible classes, meeting women in business offices, speaking across counters, going from bed to bed in the hospitals, and tactfully conversing in the rest rooms of the business house s. The Bible Woman aids pastors by training the church members for more efficient service, and by findi ng in her visita tion the backslider and the unchurched, and reporting the same to some pastor. Since the organization of the work, this band of devoted women has spent one entire morning each week in counsel and prayer, knowing that their work can only glorify God through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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